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College Essentials 📓✏️
21 items
By
Maddy Paige
Explore some of my favorite college essentials! As a 2025 grad, these were some things I couldn't live without.
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Dorm Essentials
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Classroom Essentials/Backpack Supplies
Dorm Essentials
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The perfect place to keep snacks, groceries, or other items!
Rolling Cart - Amazon
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Great for keeping shoes, or other clothes under your bed and organized!
Storage Bins
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I promise you, paper plates are much easier than trying to clean out plastic plates and cups in your dorm room after a long day.
Paper Plates - Walmart
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Make sure you have enough chargers for both your dorm room and your backpack!
Charging Essentials - iPhone Accessories - Apple
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A hard plastic shower caddy is the easiest to clean out, and can hold all your stuff in the communal bathrooms!
Hard Plastic Shower Caddy
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Shower flip flops with holes are great, because they protect your feet, but also don't allow water to get trapped!
Shower Flip Flops for Dorm Room
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Keep some pain meds in your room in case a headache comes on!
Advil Pain Relief Solutions | Advil
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Cold medicine is ESSENTIAL. Everyone gets sick during the first or second month of school.
NyQuil™ and DayQuil™ SEVERE Maximum Strength Cough, Cold & Flu
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A laundry backpack is the easiest way to do laundry in a dorm!
Laundry Backpack
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Tide Pods will be your best friend in your dorm laundry room. Don't mess around with a big bottle of laundry detergent.
Tide PODS® | Laundry Detergent
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You won't always have time to fold your laundry before class, so this can help out if you're ever in a pinch.
Downy Wrinkle Releaser Spray All In One - Amazon
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They truly never put enough outlets in a dorm room. Save yourself the trouble.
Power Strips
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The easiest and fastest way to clean your room up!
Clorox® Disinfecting Cleaning Wipes | Scented
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You'll definitely want clean water in your mini fridge at all times!
Brita Water Filter - Target
Classroom Essentials/Backpack Supplies
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Trust me, you'll need pencils way more than you think in college!
BIC Break Resistant Mechanical Pencil Lead and Eraser
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Some classes require you to take handwritten notes!
School Notebooks
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This water bottle is the perfect size to carry around from class to class!
FreeSip® Water Bottle - Owala
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Always keep a few of these handy in your backpack!
Kleenex ® On-The-Go Ultra Facial Tissues - Pocket Pack
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Great for those cold winter days when your lips get chapped!
Vaseline® Lip Therapy® Original Mini
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Great for correcting mistakes in your notes!
Bic Wite-Out
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I was never caught in class without my 40oz pink Stanley cup! Snag your own to stay hydrated all day long.
Stanley | Insulated Stainless Steel Tumblers
